Kairos Film Movies

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

The emotion and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

Short by Alexander Kluge.

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

Documentary short by Romuald Karmakar.

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that...

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.